{"id":20581,"date":"2022-12-13T12:21:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=221544"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T12:12:20","slug":"inside-germanys-postwar-prisons","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/inside-germanys-postwar-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Germany\u2019s postwar prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 13 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>In the wake of the Second World War, Germany was a country on the brink of collapse. Despite the war\u2019s end, the years to follow were turbulent, as Germans lived through the division of East and West, all while reckoning with their recent past. In her new book Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners, Sarah Colvin shares stories of the prisoners incarcerated in West and East Germany in the years between the Second War and reunification, revealing their different treatment on either side of the Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-221544-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Germanprisoners-a98003d.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Germanprisoners-a98003d.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/Germanprisoners-a98003d.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Sarah Colvin is the author of <em>Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners<\/em> (Reaktion Books, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/shadowland-the-story-of-germany-told-by-its-prisoners-sarah-colvin\/18418784?ean=9781789146271&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FShadowland-Story-Germany-Told-Prisoners%2Fdp%2F1789146275&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/shadowland\/sarah-colvin\/9781789146271&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elinor Evans Published: Tuesday, 13 December 2022 at 12:00 am In the wake of the Second World War, Germany was a country on the brink of collapse. 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